Once, while coaching a team before the Rolex International Women’s Keelboat Championship, someone asked me about jib sail trim, so I hopped on board and sat to leeward to video their jib leech while ...

As the J/Boat team leader for Quantum Sails, I spend a lot of time racing with customers on current J/Boat models. Many of these boats have non-overlapping jibs with controls for sheeting the jib. The ...

A cruiser shares lessons from replacing worn Dacron with modern sails and explains how new technology can improve cruising.

Sail Newport, Rhode Island's public sailing center, announced at the Newport International Boat Show on Thursday that the ...

I HELD ON TIGHT. My job was to hang onto the rope leading to the jib, holding just tight enough so the smaller sail could catch the wind. Seemed easy enough, until I started to lose sensation in my ...

NEWPORT, R.I. — “Good choice! You stole some wind,” the screen read on the race simulator at The Sailing Museum. “Woo-hoo!” hooted participant (and non-sailor) Paul Kelley of Marstons Mills, as he ...

Duck your head. That's the first advice that I, a newbie to sailing, hear from club members as I help Kurt Miller to prep his boat for launch onto Eagle Lake. Then I look at the boom that could whack ...

The South Carolina Maritime Museum’s summer sailing camps have a lot to offer for kids as well as adults and parents. Paz Higgins has been participating in the sailing camp for six years. This is ...

It’s an eerily calm day at the Dillon Marina, and Bob Evans is praying for something Summit sailors rarely need: a good, strong wind. Evans and I are suspended over chilly water on the rental dock at ...

I enjoy cruising; my wife detests it. She dislikes the confined quarters, the dining-room policies that seat you with strangers, the lip-synched entertainment, the temptation to devour six meals a day ...